Is it held by compression, with a slice of rubber either side of the glass? Depending how old it is, maybe the rubber has become hard and brittle, and not offering as much compression as it should be
What "man jobs" have you done today?
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Just pulled the hinge off and yeah looks like it’s a rubber compression fitting and I can see it’s split in the middle in a few places.
Anyone have the right name to search to find a replacement as my googlefoo is failing me today.
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I sanded 1/4 a the wood step on a patio door yesterday, cleaned up in about 5 minutes.
Great I thought, tomorrow I'll finish the whole step nice and simple.
So I finish then start tidying up and realise this time the whole room is coated in paint dust
DO NOT BUY Bosch PSM 200 DO NOT BUY
unless your plugging a vac onto it.
the filter box doesn't even click together properly
it flexes with the lid clicked on and forces a small gap down the seems, so paint dust either drops on the floor or flies into the air.
Literally only bought it becaus eI thought Bosch must surely be one of the good ones, but the cheapness on the filter box is just insane... even kinder eggs have better quality control on the plastic eggs...
Great I thought, tomorrow I'll finish the whole step nice and simple.
So I finish then start tidying up and realise this time the whole room is coated in paint dust
DO NOT BUY Bosch PSM 200 DO NOT BUY
unless your plugging a vac onto it.
the filter box doesn't even click together properly
it flexes with the lid clicked on and forces a small gap down the seems, so paint dust either drops on the floor or flies into the air.
Literally only bought it becaus eI thought Bosch must surely be one of the good ones, but the cheapness on the filter box is just insane... even kinder eggs have better quality control on the plastic eggs...
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This could have been avoided if you had bought a Blue version, which isn't that much more than the green.
Never saw it when I was searching for one to buy.
I guess Blue is the professional range?
I can't believe Bosch really sell such a poorly designed dust box tbh
Btw is paint supposed to be so hard to remove with a sander? that one inside balcony door step took me a little over an hour and 2 pads (40 grit), first pad I must have used a tiny bit too much pressure and had some paint clump on it
probably around 3-5 layers of paint though
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You may need to find out the specific door/panel you have to get the correct part, but something along the lines of ‘wall channel for shower screen’ is probably a starting place to search
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Dust boxes for sanders don't work. Simples
Buy way more pads and change them more often.
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FWIW I have the Blue version with box, which does fit better, but is almost pointless and filter is a pain to clean, so nearly always have it attached to the Karcher.
When possible I take the doors off, lay flat on trestles and soak them in a decent and quick paint remover.
yea... My goal was to see how good a finish I can get on that doorstep and then consider doing all the stair railing.
seems it would take so much effort I'd be better off just buying new timber for that.
There's other smaller jobs I can use it for , I guess I can easily sand away the bubbled areas on skirting boards and make them look a lot better
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Indeed - always use a shop vac.
I've had a total of four sanders, two have come with sneeze boxes and none of them ended up being used. Either a rubber adaptor or a load of gaffer tape was used to join the two (in the case of sanding wall plaster).
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Digging up Black Bamboo.
The Bamboo has won, but I will be back tomorrow.
Please anyone thinking of putting Bamboo in Garden don't do it.
The Bamboo has won, but I will be back tomorrow.
Please anyone thinking of putting Bamboo in Garden don't do it.
It's not that bad as long as you either use the correct varieties or install bamboo root barrier. I inherited quite a bit with our current house and after adding barrier its fine and a good privacy plant that grows up rather also growing out like many common hedging plants. Sure it's not my favourite plant as it creates more mess than most plants but its good where you need privacy quickly while waiting for other plants to grow as I am doing now.
Digging it out isn't an issue but then I've removed some pretty large trees/plants with large root structures so it seems easy in comparison. It's also not the only common plant that can grow invasive roots - when I relaid part of our block paving drive (poorly laid during previous owners time) I found the roots from several general border plants more than 5 metres into the drive and causing blocks to lift due to lack of sub base depth.
My next door have lots of IVY keeps climbing over the fence and some coming through the gap of fence panel, my garden is 25m long..... Thinking of planting bamboo al 25 meters and see who wins
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Put a TV up (with the help of some old laminate) in the garden cabin which, if my partner ever asks, is most definitely NOT going to be my own hideaway den. 
Nice job dlockers, I'm sure your daughter will be over the moon with her new bedroom. The prison-esque bed I'm not so sure of
My brother said something about a Hungarian snuff film that included the exact bed. They are just IKEA! It extends and has pads that make the mattress larger. She loves it, lol. It does remind me of Nightmare on Elm Street 3 tho.Shes totally over the moon. I told her this morning that I'm not sure I'll have the energy to "finish" it, and she said it's totally fine - she doesn't mind at all if the bed canopy is white. That was her tolerance. A different colour for the bed canopy, lol.
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This morning trimmed the hedge, did a bit of weeding. Put a roller blind up at our new garage window and mowed the front lawn.
This afternoon overseeing the grass growing and marshaling small birds. The work never stops.
This afternoon overseeing the grass growing and marshaling small birds. The work never stops.